St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-30
They Will be Gathered This
Week by the Tories and
UniOniStS.
Divers Comments on Cham
berlain's Visit to the
United States.
The Dynamite Scare Hardly
Without a Reasonable
Foundation.
Afghan and Moorish Charles
Dixie Again a Factor in
Politics.
BY cable to the Globe.

BY cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Oct. 29.-The government
will reap next week the first fruits of
the coercion act. Grateful in their
flavor to the nOstrils and the palate of
William O'Brlen. The appeal of the
fearless editor of United Ireland will be
tried in the Cork sessions, and there
are good legal grounds for its success
in overthrOwing the sentence of the
MitchelStOwn court. But the presiding
judge, Recorder Hamilton, is notoriously
partisan, as may be Judged from the
circumstances of his recently distin-
gushing himself by violent political
harangue from the bench, justifying the
coercion act and intimating that in ad
ministering it he would give it cthe
widest possible application and the most
liberal Interpretation, and MI. O'Brien's
friends are convinced that the appeal
will be rejected and Mr.. O'Brien COM
PEELED to enter Immediately in
to the hardship of serving
out his two months term
in jail, his lot within very short time
being shared by hundreds of others.
Compelled to abandon the idea of
wholesale proclamation of the league,
Mr.. BalfOur resOrted to
A WHOLESALE PROSECUTION
of the members of that organization
upon variety of charges. Clumsy and
defective as the act has been found and
wreJehedly administered as has been its
operation under the growing host of
agents. the government employees, it has
beeeme all increasing source of irrita-
tionin every proclaimed county. Each
Oneiof the companies under the ban has
scores of coercion prisoners in its jail,
who have been sentenced by resident
magistrates to a months Imprisonment,
which debarS the accused from appeal
ing to a higher court. Yet the
executive thirstS for more victims.
liDt.even the most prejudieed coercion
ia can discern a single atom of strength
,shieh has been brought to the side of
the government by the extended eXecu-
tiONSof the crimes act, while Oh the con
tfary the English and Irish Conservative
newspapers admit that the position of
the league is stronger than ever, the
popular feeling in England in favor of
the NationalistS being more excited and
the leaguerS themselves more deter
mined. The Dublin executive has evil
IDENTIFY been inspired to more strenuous
and better directed efforts, and If the
crop of petty convictions be added to
the weekly mass of cases pending, Mr..
Balfour will be able to boast, when par
lament resumes its sessions, that the
number of prisoners in Ireland under
the operation of his coercion act exceeds
''Buckshot" FOrster's grand total of
1900.
10 CHAMBERLAIN.
Minister West and Sir Charles Tup-
per, the Canadian high commissioners
will meet Mr.. Chamberlain on his arri-
val at New York and the three will con-
suit with view of arranging for con-
ference with Secretary Bayard at
Washington on Nov. 16. Two English
detectives accompany Mr.. Chamberlain
OH his voyage to America, and two
American detectives will join them on
their arrival and remain with the Brit
United States. Everybody, without re-
gard to party. deplores Mr.. Chamber
lain's lack of wisdom in the matter of
his speech at Islington, and all agree
that he has suffered very much in pub
lie estimation thereby. Mr.. Gladstone
is reported to have written private let
ter to Lord Harrington deprecating the
unfavOrable references of Mr.. Cham
herlain to the relation of his mission
10 peace between England and America
on account of his opposition to home
rule, and many other statesmen enter
tain similar opinions as to the Birming-
ham mans indiScretiOn. In CONVERSE
tion with several delegates to the con-
ference of the Liberal federation Mr..
Gladstone expressed his opinion that
Mr.. Chamberlain's appointment was
AN ADMIRABLE ONE,
as he was thoroughly qualified by his
knowledge of commercial questions, his
experience in the board of trade and
other special abilities for the post, and
these are certainly the sentiments of
the leading Gladstonian Liberals, who
one and all regret at the same time Mr..
Chamberlain'S reckless attacks, but do
not believe that the statesmen at Wash
ingtOn will allow themselves to be in
fluenceG by any other than purely state
considerations The American cable
dispatches giving the opinions of the
American newspapers concerning Mr..
Chamberlain'S speeches represent that
tile whole Irish vote will be used to the
end of encOmpaSSing the rejection of
any'settlement that Mr.. Chamberlain
may deem favorable to his government,
whether it be satisfactory to the Wash
ington government or not. But no
American utterance against Mr.. Cham
beffain's mission approaches the temper
on the Gladstonian organs here. These
papers rejoice over the certainty that
thesnegotiatiOns will fail, and declare
that it ought to. The Pail Mall Gazette
predicts the delight with which the Irish
in America will set themselves TO work
to render nugatOry every negotiation
Mr. Chamberlain may enter into, and,
going further. suggests that upon his
arrival in New York he will be
HAILED BY THE IRISH
as the Roman pOpulace welcomed Tar
quin when. according to Macauley, on
the house tops there was no woman who
did not spit at him and hiss him, and no
child that did not scream out curses and
shake it's little fist at him. This infuri-
ate invective, however, misrepresents
the best Liberal hopes for Mr.. Cham
berlain's success. If his miesion should
fail through Irish hostility to Mr.. Cham
berlain as an English politician holding
unionist views, home rule might suffer
long and greatly throughout England,
and the Conservative press, perceiying
| this issue clearly, arc making the most
+ of the fact The Globe says: 1.-THE
Irish and semi-1rish press in New York
is unhappily power before whom the
public men of America tremble. If MIR.
Chamberlain fails everybody in Eng
land, america and Canada will know
how the failure was brought about"
The st. James Gazette advises the cOun-
try to remember the threats of the Irish
partisans and adds: The enemies of
good government in the republic may
succeed in raising GladstOnian laugh
| AGAINST Mr. Eha,nharIain hut thouph